Chapter IX. *making appropriations for the support of the Navy of the United States, during the year one thousand eight hundred and five.*Jan. 25, 1805. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Specific appropriations
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Chap. IX.— An Act *making appropriations for the support of the Navy of the United States, during the year one thousand eight hundred and five.*Jan. 25, 1805. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Specific appropriations. States of America in Congress assembled,* That for defraying the expenses of the navy of the United States, during the year one thousand eight hundred and five, the following sums be, and the same are hereby respectively appropriated, that is to say:
For the pay and subsistence of the officers, and the pay of the seamen, four hundred and fifteen thousand five hundred and seventy-eight dollars. For provisions, two hundred and twenty-seven thousand seven hundred and eighty-six dollars, and forty cents. For medicine, instruments, hospital stores, and all expenses on account of the sick, ten thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. For repairs of vessels, store rent, and other contingent expenses, four hundred and eleven thousand nine hundred and fifty-one dollars, and two cents.
For the pay and subsistence of the marine corps, including provisions for those on shore, and forage for the staff, eighty-two thousand five hundred and ninety-three dollars, and sixty cents. For clothing for the same, sixteen thousand five hundred and thirty-six dollars and ninety-eight cents. For military stores for the same, one thousand six hundred and thirty-five dollars. For medicine, medical services, hospital stores, and all expenses on 311EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 10, 11. 1805. account of the sick belonging to the marine corps, one thousand two Specific appropriations. hundred and fifty dollars.
For quartermaster’s and barrack master’s stores, officers’ travelling expenses, armorer’s and carpenters’ bills, fuel, premium for enlisting, music, and other contingent expenses, eight thousand four hundred and nineteen dollars. For the expense of navy yards, docks, and other improvements, the pay of superintendents, storekeepers, clerks and labourers, sixty thousand dollars. For completing the marine barracks at the city of Washington, three thousand five hundred dollars. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the several sums herein specifically appropriated, and amounting altogether to the sum of one million two hundred and forty thousand dollars, shall be paid, first, out of the monies accruing at the end of the year one thousand eight hundred and five, from the duties laid by the act passed on the twenty-fifth day of Act of March 25, 1804, ch. 46.
March, one thousand eight hundred and four, intituled “An act further to protect the commerce and seamen of the United States against the Barbary powers,” provided that the sum to be paid from the proceeds of the said duties shall not exceed five hundred and ninety thousand dollars; secondly, out of any balance remaining unexpended of former appropriations for the support of the navy, and lastly, out of any monies in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated. Approved, January 25, 1805.